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[Chief Grey Bear]

If we drew fishermen from all over the country we would bitch about crowded rivers and blame them for hurting our fisheries, these smaller systems are very fragile and one bad gigger, one poacher, and even one legal angler can really put the hurt on the population of legal sized smallmouth in a particular stretch.

Exactly!

I would really like to see the MSA regroup and design a plan to again address the MDC with a viable set of River Regulations that will be acceptable to all fishermen and the resource.

We have hashed it out here on this board. All we need to really do is package it and present it.

[Hog Wally]

If we drew fishermen from all over the country we would bitch about crowded rivers and blame them for hurting our fisheries, these smaller systems are very fragile and one bad gigger, one poacher, and even one legal angler can really put the hurt on the population of legal sized smallmouth in a particular stretch.

[Hog Wally]

[Dan Kreher]

MDC coming to MSA meeting in May (19th I believe). They will be discussing results of tagging study and other work they've been conducting on stream smallmouth. They will provide an update on where they are headed with regulations changes in the management of smallmouth bass in our streams as well. MSA is hopeful that something substantive will come from their work and this discussion. We've been waiting 5 years since MSA first proposed an update to MDC smallmouth bass management plan.